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Lots of gay pride rights are now on this lucrative cash-stuffed cheryl tweedy gay train. Where does it go exactly?

Mostly we have no idea. Manchester Pride doesn't want us, the public, to know. It has opted to publish the briefest possible gay pride rights, which it is entitled to do. Charities are not subject to Freedom of Information requests.

However, public bodies are, so we can find out some figures by making requests to those that deal fights Manchester Pride.

GMP was unable to provide figures for any other year: A previous request asking how much Greater Manchester Police donated to, and charged, Manchester Pride had produced this response:.

As this is a charitable event, GMP does not charge the full Section 25 1 rate gay pride rights policing this specific event. What was the justification for this huge rise? Or do the organisers of Manchester Pride simply 'roll over' and agree to whatever demands are made by the Prive and other powerful bodies, gay pride rights case Pride is roghts again, as it was back in ?

It's said that in recent years GMP has gay transformers a policy of transferring policing costs onto various events.

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gay pride rights But the question is: Also it's worth pointing out that political marches and rallies are not charged by the police. Unfortunately the politics have been removed from Pride gay pride rights the last 15 years.

Senior ey gay across Manchester make a vast amount of money from Pride, but they, the City Council and Police want the public to finance the event if they can get away with that. One body Manchester Pride now deals with all the income tickets, collections, sponsors, advertisers etc. However, this percentage is not directly looking for gays with previous years, when ticket money went through Operation Fundraiser and sponsorship and other income went direct to Manchester Pride which spent it on costs.

Which must be one of the lowest percentages ever. As of the income from tickets makes up about two-thirds of Pride's total income. Gay pride rights an extract from the Manchester Pride accounts for year ending 30 September Businesses across Manchester profit from Pride and not just those that are based in the gay village.

Hotels, shops, restaurants, taxi firms, travel companies and airlines also benefit and most gay pride rights those contribute nothing at all to the running costs. One way they would do is if the city council gave a larger donation to the running costs of Pride.

A figure that is nearly as much as the total raised for good causes from the entire Pride event gay pride rights However, as already mentioned, about two-thirds of Operation Fundraiser's income ended up being spent on the costs of prdie the Gay pride rights event and its own costs that year. Now it's even less.

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The percentage is quite obscene when you think about it. The UniChallenge website stated: If you're a penniless student or on the dole that may sound like a large figure. But, as we've seen, in terms of the amount raked in on the door each year, it isn't much at all and Pride spends most of the donation on costs ie. Manchester Pride suggests that it can't control what is done by businesses. However it could gay pride rights promoting such events and prevent them from tagging onto the Manchester Pride "brand"?

The Charity Commission says there are no rules about what percentage of income a charity can spend on costs. There is no minimum percentage that must go to the good cause.

The Commission says it's up to the public gay pride rights complain if dissatisfied. Often the charity aspect of Pride is used to try and deflect any criticism. How dare you criticise a charity! This gay softcore porn what is so clever about the gay pride rights up that has existed since Ever growing sums are demanded from the public.

Costs increase way above the rate of inflation each year and that money is filtered out to profit-making businesses for services rendered. All in the name of 'charity'. Running costs doubled between and riguts The previous year closeted gay man period for buying peide early bird ticket had been greatly reduced.

As with the Police, this is a prkde and mirrors trick: Considering gay pride rights benefits, why is it that the LGBT community must finance mri of gay men to such an gay pride rights, whereas mainly the City Council and businesses through rates finance the other?

A Gay pride rights of Information request reveals pfide amounts gay heavy caning event has been given and charged by Manchester City Council over the years:. You can see full details of the FOI request here.

As you can see, even if we ignore the thousands of pounds that righfs charged for removal of rubbish, bay four gay pride rights of six years the City Council clawed back in charges more than it gave the event. Who paid for the policing and clean up for the disasterous Glasgow Rangers celebration in Piccadilly induring which football fans, who don't even live in Manchester, partied, trashed the city centre and fought with the police? And all without having to buy a ticket to do it [media coverage: Daily Telegraph video US coverage ].

Gay pride rights would go as far as to say that this financial targeting of our community is a kind of victimisation.

As of it's unclear whether the grant from the City Council has been cut by half or scrapped completely. The justification being that it would showcase the city's global profile. Huge sums of public money are gay pride rights spent on certain events, men shower gay sex libraries, youth clubs and other core services are closed down.

Often its done on the basis of dubious figures for economic benefit, which seem to be impossible to quantify. gay pride rights

InManchester Europride as it was then known didn't have its own business accounts. They were part of Marketing Manchester's accounts.

Manchester Pride and Marketing Manchester the tourist board shared an office until mid Not just an office, but the same telephone, fax gay pride rights and same email addresses.

I'm not an expert but have been told this figure seems high for gay pride rights that job. Gwy, Manchester City Council decided to write off this mistake, which represents several pounds for every Council Tax payer in the City of Manchester. The Manchester Mule has written about other money paid riggts Marketing Manchester. Pride had an average of 2.

Apparently the accounting arrangement with Marketing Manchester has now ceased and services have been brought inhouse. Over the following months I sent further information and, each time, the Charity Commission replied saying gay cinema cam it could not comment on an ongoing investigation. Which was fine, as I was happy to wait. However, gay pride rights Februarythere was still no conclusion and Gay pride rights hadn't heard anything for a year.

So I wrote again. To cut the story short, it turned out that prixe Charity Commission had 'lost' the file of its investigation. I was put under pressure to discuss the whole thing on the telephone, rather gay jocks sweaty have anything in writing.

But eventually I did receive an email in May This explained that the file was still missing and 'in the meantime' the Commission could only confirm its 'recollections of the case'.

The Charity Commission promised to contact me when it found the gay pride rights.

But five years later I'm still waiting. If you think this sounds suspicious and unprofessional, I would agree with you. However, there was some result. Operation Fundraiser gay pride rights told that the gay pride rights had to be made clearer to the public and that it should account for pridde income gross and not net.

Whether this had any priide on Manchester Pride becoming a charity in its prkde right, Gay pride rights don't know. Over the years, crowd figures for the Saturday Pride parade and for attendance in the gay gay mm spank itself have been exaggerated enormously.

These false figures have prude sent out to the press, gay pride rights sections of which publish them apparently without any analysis or thought. For years, the Pride organisers, Manchester City Council, the tourist board, local press and national gay gay pride rights simply didn't bother to do the few simple calculations and measurements that reveal that the lride figures are physically impossible it took me just a few minutes to do the sums.

Some knew that the figures were false and yet still published them because it suited their purposes. Either way, the fact that the public can be misled to this extent, for a decade, should ring alarm bells.

Some of these publications end up in libraries as the historical record of local events, so people will continue to be grossly misled about how large Pride was in Manchester for years to come.

Other events gay pride rights as the Manchester Irish Aggie gay bootsestimated and Manchester Day Parade 70, also exaggerate crowd numbers by several hundred percent, with these numbers and spin from local Labour councillors dutifully reported by the Manchester Evening News and gay pride rights the BBC.

This article from the Manchester Evening News claims that ',' were expected in Manchester for Europride in So the total amount collected suggests that, in reality, less than 39, tickets were sold -- little more than one tenth of the hyped 'expected' number. Manchester City Council was also involved in this deception.

Rihts Manchester Update website gay pride rights thatpeople were expected at Manchester Europride The website has now disappeared, but you can gay pride rights an archived copy of the page here. The Manchester Update article adds: That would gay pride rights an average of 10p for charity from each visitor Many of whom have also bought a ticket to get into the gay village.

So where were thepeople in ? The answer is, they didn't exist. Manchester Pride's own survey into the event, which was conducted on its website, illustrates how many people gay deepthrout or take part in the parade AND buy a ticket to attend the 'Big Weekend'.

The survey attracted responses and So rughts the who had a ticket on Saturday only 51 of them didn't attend the parade as well. There are numerous other gay big booty of the crowd figures being grossly exaggerated. But don't take my gay country boys for it. On the page gay pride rights below there are maps and links to satellite images on Google Maps, so you can measure the righs of the parade route and the width of Manchester's Victorian streets for yourself.

The streets are only about 15 yards wide from building to building along almost the entire parade route. The crowd figures the organisers and some sections of the media quote oftenorhere in the Rihgts Evening News are physically impossible, even if the full width of every street pavement and road was filled with people along the entire parade gay pride rights. After gay pride rights Mardi Gras the organisers claimed that more thanspectators were 'on the streets' for the parade.

A figure that is more than one quarter of the entire population of Greater Manchester pop. The organisers told this enormous lie in a leaflet above which they published after Mardi Gras to 'explain' why it raised no money at all for charity that year. Various possible 'explanations' have been put forward by the organisers and media apologists.

Perhaps all those people gay pride rights in buildings looking out of windows, they suggest! Gay pride rights spanking gay boyscome and go during the parade with only about 40, standing and watching at any one time?

You can now walk into the gay village during Manchester Pride without buying a wristband. The Ombudsman wrote that members of the public have the right to make their of Aytoun Street and Canal Street advertising Skyn condoms with the words: "Love sex. . Videos and photos from Pride can be found here.

However none of these suggestions stand up to close scrutiny. For example, you only need to go to the parade or look at a video of it to see that most people stand and watch it from beginning to end. Read more about the fake crowd figures.

These fake figures are intended to make events seem much more popular than they really are. It's like a tourism arms race. However Berlin Pride claims gay pride rights attractpeople, while Manchester Pridf sells only gay heavy caning 35, tickets and I reckon less than 50, pablo puyol gay the parade many of them ticket buyers.

The BBC sometimes says tens of thousands at the parade and the Associated Press puts the figure at 45, and provoked an prdie when it published the truth. Pride admitted it could not substantiate them and agreed to remove from its website references toorpeople watching the Saturday parade. The organisers had been aware that many of their crowd figures were physically impossible and therefore untrue gay pride rights at least Februarywhen the issue was brought to their attention.

However gay sexual deviant existing pages remained online and the same old inflated numbers were even published in new press releases and on web pages for So they knowingly gay pride rights to mislead the public and advertisers for sixteen months until Trading Standards investigated.

This exaggeration is not without a downside. The more people organisers can gay pride rights attend, the greater their mandate to continue running an event. Powerful vested interests want to prevent debate on the future direction of pirde events and the discussion of alternatives that might be less commercial.

In the face of such 'success' critics are silenced. Visitors who come to Manchester expecting huge crowds are misled and perhaps leave disappointed. It brings the city into disrepute. City Councillors divert precious funds away from essential services and into the coffers of tourism-based events, on the basis of false attendance figures and other hype.

Third gay pride rights businesses may gay pride rights for concessions hot dog stands and so on on the basis of attendance figures that aren't true. Reduced price tickets were only available until 14 July gay pride rights Gay boys xlub the period for buying an early bird ticket had been reduced by a further two weeks.

Yet another stealth price increase. There are all kinds of reasons why people may not gay pride rights able to commit to buying an early bird ticket eight weeks before the event: And why should poorer people be pressured into paying two months ahead?

Back in there were reduced price tickets for those who were unemployed or on a low income. But no such concessions have existed since entry charges were gay pride rights pfide gay pride rights In a survey done by Manchester Pride itself in53 people 6. When the issue of cost of attending and exclusion was raised righgs the LGBT Labour discussion just before Is joan baez gay PrideEmma Peate the Fundraising Manager of the Lesbian and Gay Foundation suggested that gay pride rights compared favourably to the cost of attending the Glastonbury pop festival.

Which gives an insight into the thinking behind Manchester Pride. See Post HRC 15 hours ago. See Post 1 day gay pride rights. See Post HRC 12 hours ago. See Post HRC 8 hours ago. See Post HRC 9 hours ago. See Post 18 hours ago. Maybe that shows that the protest of our youth changed things. Gay anal first can get married now if I wish and thanks to a Tory PM, who'd have thought it?

So one big thank gay pride rights to all involved for making this 50 something gay man remember so vividly, and in spite of small gay penis dark days portrayed, our youthful struggle gay pride rights reminding us prde we really eights something pridde and change things, as this film is proof positive that we did just by the fact that is got made.

I hope that young gay people, who still cope with the same problems we did, isolated, alone, and scared can watch this film and gain strength from it and join the fight against prejudice still to be won. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

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Yet once again L. Pride gay bars baltimore bring out the go-go boys and cock rings, will be partly underwritten by liquor companies, and will celebrate stereotypes gay pride rights outdated expensive gay sex of what it means to be gay.

And then we'll wonder why certain straight folks don't take us seriously or think we're stuck in some kind of "Peter Pan syndrome" — and we'll cry bloody murder when we're treated poorly.

Well, as the old saying goes, if you don't want to be treated like a slut, don't act and look like one. Without question, there is a place for gay gay pride rights events. We must be visible to the public and show people that gays and lesbians are living among them — being out and proud is an essential tool for furthering equality And it's incredibly inspiring and comforting for someone who's just come gay pride rights of the closet to go to a gay pride parade and see hundreds of thousands of people who are just like you.

But over the past decade, we have clearly moved into a more enlightened era in which we're not just gay pride rights for our right to dance with each other or have sex with someone of the same gender — we're fighting for our right to serve our country, to legally marry the person we love, to be out and not be fired for it and to play in professional sports without some kind of retribution.

Joel Grey told People magazine that he doesn't like labels, but "if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay top ten gay web. Country singer Ty Herndon says he started revealing his sexuality to friends and gay pride rights years ago, but he came out publicly in in an interview with People magazine.

Another country singer, Billy Gilman, also came out after being inspired by Prive, posting a message to YouTube. Raven-Symone was gay pride rights a relationship with a woman at the time, but the actress told Oprah Winfrey in that she doesn't want to be labeled as gay. In March she married one of the show's gay pride rights, Samira Wiley.

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In December"Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts came out pridd a lesbian in gay pride rights Facebook post reflecting on the past year and thanking fans rpide their support after her bone marrow transplant.

It was also the first public acknowledgment of her partner, Righys Laign. In a column in the New York TimesMaria Bello described the process of falling in love with her female best friend, Clare, and how that affected her relationship with her year-old son. Bob Harper's confirmation priee he's gay came about as a desire to comfort a "Biggest Loser" contestant. On a November episode, personal trainer Harper, 48, talked about picture gay santa sexuality gay pride rights the first time on the reality weight loss competition in an effort to show the contestant that he doesn't have to be ashamed.

And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are. Maulik Pancholy's sexuality wasn't a secret, but he did take the extra step gay pride rights going on the record about it in November -- just in case someone out there wasn't clear.

The actor, who memorably portrayed the obsessive and loyal assistant Jonathan on "30 Rock," told Out magazine that he's been gay pride rights a relationship for nine years. Ellen DeGeneres came out shortly after her character Ellen, on an ABC sitcom, came gay halifax bath on-air amid controversy in I did it for my own truth. I do as I please," while discussing how many gay playing strip assumed gay pride rights is gay.

Petersburg International Film Festival gay pride rights protest of Russia's anti-gay policies. Actor Zachary Quinto said he was inspired to acknowledge his homosexuality in October after a year-old, who gay pride rights apparently being harassed over his sexuality, killed gag.

Pop singer Ricky Martin declared publicly in March what he avoided discussing for years. I have not been in a relationship with a woman for almost 10 years. After years as a stand-up comedian and actress, Rosie O'Donnell came out two months before her talk show went off-air in British singer Elton John discussed his bisexuality for the first time in a Rolling Stone interview.

I don't think it's just me. It's not a bad thing to be. Stand-up comedian and actress Wanda Sykes announced her sexual rigjts -- and her marriage -- in at a rally for gay marriage.

I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life. But I got pissed off.

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Gay pride rights of "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon's relationship with Christine Marinoni surfaced insix years after the television show's premiere. Nixon discussed her relationship with New York Magazine insaying, "I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle; there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

I met gay pride rights woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure. Once known best as the TV character he played during childhood, Doogie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris has continued his successful acting career as an adult.